Green School Reaccreditation
Tree-Planting Field Trip Lesson Plan
(1st and 2nd Grade—Fall)
Objectives:
· To understand the importance of trees to the protection and health of the bay
· To plant trees as we learn our role as stewards of the environment
· To discover what is in the woods and to see human impacts
· To have fun and experientially enact our Environmental Stewardship and Service Learning strands
· To see for themselves the interaction between land and water ecosystems
Essential Question: How do trees improve the health of the bay?
Materials: Saplings to plant. Shovels.
Subjects Covered/Skills: Science, Environmental Stewardship/Cooperation, Communication, Implementation
Activity: Students walk through the woods. They listen to a talk from an outdoors educator from the Magothy River Association. They plant twelve saplings, provided by the association, along the riverbanks in Beachwood Park. As the students hiked through the woods and along the shoreline, they discovered that people before them had left trash, and they asked if they could clean it up. The 1st and 2nd grade students filled two large trash bags. They left the park cleaner than they found it and enhanced by new tree plantings.
Assessment/Celebration: They students first listened to and then performed the listed steps to planting. They identified the need to clean up after others and took action.
Resources/Partnerships: The Magothy River Association provided the tree saplings, and a representative of the association accompanied the field trip and spoke to the children about erosion, filtration, preservation of riverbanks, and prevention of pollution in rivers and the bay. Parents also assisted on the field trip.
Tree-Planting Field Trip Lesson Plan
(1st and 2nd Grade—Fall)
Objectives:
· To understand the importance of trees to the protection and health of the bay
· To plant trees as we learn our role as stewards of the environment
· To discover what is in the woods and to see human impacts
· To have fun and experientially enact our Environmental Stewardship and Service Learning strands
· To see for themselves the interaction between land and water ecosystems
Essential Question: How do trees improve the health of the bay?
Materials: Saplings to plant. Shovels.
Subjects Covered/Skills: Science, Environmental Stewardship/Cooperation, Communication, Implementation
Activity: Students walk through the woods. They listen to a talk from an outdoors educator from the Magothy River Association. They plant twelve saplings, provided by the association, along the riverbanks in Beachwood Park. As the students hiked through the woods and along the shoreline, they discovered that people before them had left trash, and they asked if they could clean it up. The 1st and 2nd grade students filled two large trash bags. They left the park cleaner than they found it and enhanced by new tree plantings.
Assessment/Celebration: They students first listened to and then performed the listed steps to planting. They identified the need to clean up after others and took action.
Resources/Partnerships: The Magothy River Association provided the tree saplings, and a representative of the association accompanied the field trip and spoke to the children about erosion, filtration, preservation of riverbanks, and prevention of pollution in rivers and the bay. Parents also assisted on the field trip.